The education of Walter Kohn and the creation of density functional theory

DOI10.1007/s00407-014-0140-xzbMath1309.01017arXiv1403.5164OpenAlexW2078799977MaRDI QIDQ484144

Andrew Zangwill

Publication date: 18 December 2014

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.5164

zbMATH Keywords

quantum mechanicsdensity functional theorysolid state physicsmany-particle problemsWalter Kohn

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of statistical mechanics (82-03)

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